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Ludwig van Beethoven Choral Collection Beethoven

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With their extensive forces and complex parts, the performance of Beethoven's choral-symphonic works is hugely demanding for many choir. Carus has therefore expanded the repertoire of works available for mixed choirs. The Choral Collection Beethoven contains especially attractive arrangements of Beethoven’s music from three centuries. Contents include the choral-symphonic repertoire in versions with piano accompaniment, some lesser-known unaccompanied works, and some seldom-performed works, such as pieces from his incidental music. During his lifetime Beethoven was so admired that contemporaries arranged his music – mainly the well-known instrumental works – for chorus. Some of these choral works were even performed at Beethoven’s funeral. Subsequent generations of composers have also immersed themselves in Beethoven’s output. In addition, Carus has commissioned choral arrangements of Beethoven’s works from several contemporary composers. 

The Choral Collection Beethoven contains 41 secular and sacred choral movements in a wide range of styles. Editor Jan Schumacher has created an indispensable resource with the Beethoven Choral Collection, particularly for amateur choirs, but the edition is also suitable for vocal ensembles and chamber choirs. Guaranteed enjoyment of Beethoven’s music well beyond every anniversary year.

  • 41 choral settings for SATB, some with piano accompaniment
  • well within the capabilities of amateur choirs
  • suitable for concerts, church services, and many social occasions
  • also contains arrangements of Beethoven’s vocal and instrumental works from three centuries, by composers including Gottlieb Benedict Bierey, Heribert Breuer, Peter Cornelius, Gunnar Eriksson, Gunther Martin Göttsche, Clytus Gottwald, John Høybye, Hans Georg Nägeli, Peter Schindler, Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried, Friedrich Silcher, and many others
  • CD with selected works included with the conductor’s score (Deutscher Jugendkammerchor, conducted by Florian Benfer)
  • economical choral edition (editionCHOR) available

Contents (selection)

  • Choruses and canons: Auld Lang SyneGlück zum neuen Jahr, and Das Reden / Schweigen and many more.
  • Historic arrangements for chorus, including from the "Moonlight Sonata", the "Appassionata", the 7th Symphony, and many other works.
  • New arrangements for chorus, including the songs Bitten, Ich liebe dich, Marmotte, and many others.
  • Arrangements for chorus and piano, including the choral movements from the Choral Fantasia, the oratorio Christus am Ölberge and the incidental music Die Ruinen von Athen, and the finale of the 9th Symphony

 

 

 

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  • Freude-Quodlibet
  • Neue Liebe, neues Leben
  • Sehnsucht
  • Ich liebe dich
  • Hymne an die Nacht
  • Erl-King
  • Kyrie based on the Adagio of the so-called "Moonlight Sonata"
  • O Lord, thy love is infinite
  • Bußlied
  • Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur
  • Das Göttliche
  • Chor der Frauen
  • Marmotte
  • O care selve
  • Auld lang Syne
  • Persischer Nachtgesang
  • Elegiac Song
  • Tränentrost
  • Opferlied
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choral collection, conductor's score, with CD Carus 4.025/00, ISBN 978-3-89948-344-4, ISMN 979-0-007-18794-1 136 pages, paperback
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choral collection, edition for choir Carus 4.025/05, ISMN 979-0-007-18795-8 104 pages, paperback Minimum order quantity: 20 copies
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Contents

  • Ludwig van Beethoven was without doubt one of the most influential composers in the history of music. His works formed the culmination of many genres – particularly instrumental – of Viennese classicism, and laid the foundation for the following decades. But Beethoven’s vocal works set standards too: the late Missa Solemnis is one of the most impressive choral works of its time; but his earlier Mass in C also opens up new worlds of expression for the liturgical text, and set the benchmark for the further development in the composition of the mass. And with the final chorus of the Ninth Symphony, the setting of Schiller’s Ode to Joy, Beethoven created one of the most frequently-performed and best known choral pieces of all, writing a timeless musical memorial to himself. Personal details
  • Professor Jan Schumacher is Director of Music at Goethe University Frankfurt and conductor of Camerata Musica Limburg. He has been teaching choral conducting to beginners and advanced students for over twenty years, regularly leads international conducting courses and master classes and is active worldwide as a guest conductor, adjudicator and seminar leader. He is Chairman of the Choral Advisory Board of the German Music Council and Vice President of the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM). As an author and editor he has been associated with Carus-Verlag for many years.rus-Verlag. Personal details

Reviews

… Ein schönes Chorbuch! ... Eine gelungene Gabe zum 250. Geburtstag Beethovens.
Roman Emilias, Gottesdienst + Kirchenmusik, 04/2020

... Die vielen Kanons sind wirkliche Neuentdeckungen und können beispielsweise zum Abschluss des Einsingens am Beginn einer Chorprobe stehen. ... Nicht nur im Jubiläumsjahr sei das Chorbuch Beethoven allen Kirchenmusikern und -musikerinnen ans Herz gelegt und zum Kauf unbedingt empfohlen!
Markus Karas, Musik & Kirche, Mai/Juni 2020

... Der Herausgeber Jan Schumacher ... garantiert Freude an Beethovens Musik weit über das Jubiläumsjahr hinaus.
Kirchenmusikalische Mitteilungen der Diözese Rottenburg - Stuttgart, 3/2020

... er is voor elk niveau en iedere gelegenheid wel wat wils in te vinden.
Elger Niels, de nieuwe muze, 4/2019

... Da sowohl weltliches und geistliches Repertoire bedient wird, kann das Beethoven Chorbuch allen
Chören eine Hilfe sein, die im nächsten Jahr dem Komponisten „huldigen” wollen.
Sven Dierke, www.notenkeller.de, November 2019

... Zu finden ist hier für jeden etwas, ob für weltliche oder sakrale Anlâsse, ob besinnlich oder humorvoll.
Gustav Danzinger, CHOR aktuell 4/2019

... Chorkenner Jan Schumacher [hat] eine Sammlung von 41 Stücken herausgegegen, die vor allem wegen der weniger bekannten Werke eine Fundgrube bietet. Neben einer wohl unvermeidlichen Bearbeitung der „Ode an die Freude” und einer gekürzten Version der „Chorfantasie” fallen zunächst die Instrumentalwerke auf, die durch geschickte Bearbeitungen nun zu hörenswerten Chorwerken werden.
Chorzeit, September 2019

Wer sich mit seinem Chor nicht gleich an die Missa solemnis wagen will, findet in diesem überzeugend zusammengestellten Band überschaubare Werke ...
Neue Musikzeitung, Juli/August 2019

... Unterm Strich ist dieses Chorbuch eine interessante Repertoire-Erweiterung und Fundgrube.
Schweizer Musikzeitung, 11/ 2019

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